How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Eugene Russo. 2002. Putting politics back into science. Nature 415, 6874 (February 2002), 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Forest Rohwer and Anca M. Segall. 2015. In retrospect: A century of phage lessons. Nature 528, 7580 (December 2015), 46–48.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

John A. Long, Kate Trinajstic, and Zerina Johanson. 2009. Devonian arthrodire embryos and the origin of internal fertilization in vertebrates. Nature 457, 7233 (February 2009), 1124–1127.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Manolis Kellis, Nick Patterson, Matthew Endrizzi, Bruce Birren, and Eric S. Lander. 2003. Sequencing and comparison of yeast species to identify genes and regulatory elements. Nature 423, 6937 (May 2003), 241–254.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Ian C. Storey and Arlene Allan. 2008. A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Gavin Doherty and Ann Blandford (Eds.). 2007. Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification: 13th International Workshop, DSVIS 2006, Dublin, Ireland, July 26-28, 2006. Revised Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cui Tao, Dingcheng Li, Feichen Shen, Zonghui Lian, Jyotishman Pathak, Hongfang Liu, and Christopher G. Chute. 2013. Phenotyping on EHR Data Using OWL and Semantic Web Technologies. In Smart Health: International Conference, ICSH 2013, Beijing, China, August 3-4, 2013. Proceedings, Daniel Zeng, Christopher C. Yang, Vincent S. Tseng, Chunxiao Xing, Hsinchun Chen, Fei-Yue Wang and Xiaolong Zheng (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 31–32.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing.

Blog post

[1]

Josh Davis. 2017. Carbon Emissions In The UK The Lowest Since 1894. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/carbon-emissions-in-the-uk-the-lowest-since-1894/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office. 1983. Cost Recovery Practices Inconsistent With Government Policy. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Huy D. Pham. 2017. Determination of Default Probability in Auto Finance through Predictive Analytics. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Julie Bosman, Amy Harmon, Christine Hauser, Jess Bidgood, and Maggie Astor. 2017. Friends and Relatives Share Memories About the Las Vegas Shooting Victims. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [5–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Access. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1936-7228
ISSN (online)	1936-7236
Scope